The North Pool, anyone?

Five miles from Nashville, the cottage-like restaurant has a lunch menu listing ladylike comfort foods such as curried chicken salad. At dinner, you can order a ribeye or herb-stuffed chicken, and barbecued ribs on the weekends.

Here’s a coffeehouse with great stage presence.

Rachael’s Cafe in Bloomington has built a new fan base across the pond, thanks to a play by the same name that debuted at the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2011 and had a run at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London that ended this past March.